2006/10/06 12:00 Daniel Berg, "Services Research and Education"

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Daniel Berg, RPI

Wrote a paper with James Tien, on which this talk is based

Department name has changed to Complex Engineering Systems

Small school, 400 faculty

Problem: had a few faculty, all in different parts of institutes

Faculty made a play to get some scale by joining people together

Were SME before we knew it, with a heavy focus on manufacturing because of the time

Still working on the convergence from manufacturing and systems

Came from robotics institute, Westinghouse before that

Went to U. Penn., between engineering and Wharton, funded as a Citibank fellow

Most funding comes from industry

Part of research purpose, focus on intellectual property

Educational issues

Masters, service sector 1985 29%, and 2005 now 69%

Master's program, take what you got and build on that, built three classes: one was service information systems

[Questions]

Any measures from hiring companies, are students less effective, and in what area?

RPI is ranked modestly in the academic community, but disproportionately high by hiring (#7)

Understanding of basic fundamentals

Size of MS degree program

Created 3 years ago, came into effect 2 years ago

In New York State, have a Regents system, and regent needs to approve every program

Haven't been approved yet, it's illegal

We develop Ph.D. students, had a student in service design 15 years ago, wouldn't have called it a services degree

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